The clinical value of daily routine chest radiographs in a mixed medical-surgical intensive care unit is low

Critical Care

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Graat, Marleen E ^a   Choi, Goda ^a   Wolthuis, Esther K ^a   Korevaar, Johanna C ^a   Spronk, Peter E ^b   Stoker, Jaap ^a   Vroom, Margreeth B ^a   Schultz, Marcus J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b GELRE HOSPITALS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG CONGESTION; LUNG INFILTRATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; PNEUMOTHORAX; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 34447578048     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc3955     Document Type: Article

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